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A lot of great important stuff in here, including great work by Sari Botton, Mira Ptacin, Elissa Bassist, and Sarah Mirk. I'm happy that my essay, I Know Who You Raped Last Summer, is included.
305.42097 G3941 2012
This is an important book. 21 different topical essays on the subject of women's reproductive freedom. Some essays are achingly personal. Some are academically political. All are fascinating and well written. All drive home the message loud and clear that our right to control our bodies is very much at stake. I think this book is a must for high school and college curriculums. I highly recommend it, to both men and women who care about reproductive freedom. I recommend it even more highly as an
A great collection of essays about reproductive rights and a variety of other issues adjacent to reproductive rights (such as family composition and child custody). It even comes with a guide of discussion questions, making it a great book for classes or clubs that would like to broach the topic(s) but don't really know how.
With a title like "Get Out of My Crotch!" it's not surprising that reading this collection made me (a)question my own tepid brand of feminism , (b) much less complacent about the status quo of women's reproductive rights, and (c) mad as hell. This is a fast, entertaining--yes, even the essays that were difficult to read because of subject matter (rape, violence against women) were page-turners--and highly informative collection that gets to the core of the last few decades' increase in legislati...
Full disclosure: My daughter is the author of a chapter in this book.This is a collection of chapters by 21 authors on the theme captured in the subtitle, "respond to America's War On Women's Rights and Reproductive Health." If you don't currently subscribe to the notion that there is a war, this volume may convince you to reconsider.If you're someone who came to consciousness after Roe v. Wade (1973) (or whose context is outside of the US), much of the history reviewed in several of the chapter...
A good read that is a must for informed citizens (or not). Some may find some of these essays shocking. After working in public health and as a woman's health care provider/CNM, there were not too many shockers for me. The war on women is active in the year 2014.